Motorway services as well as big petrol stations will be needed to set up charging points for electric cars and trucks under new government plans. 
The Automated as well as electric vehicles expense introduced in the Queen’s speech earlier this year makes it mandatory for motorway services as well as big fuel forecourts to set up EV fee points. deliver priest John Hayes has now verified the Government’s plans to boost the size of UK’s charging infrastructure. 
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Hayes said: “We want the UK to be the very best location in the world to do business as well as a leading hub for contemporary deliver technology, which is why we are introducing the Automated as well as electric vehicles expense in Parliament as well as investing more than £1.2 billion in the industry.” 
The charging stations will all have to function ‘smart’ chargers that allow them to interact with the wider grid to handle electricity demand across the country. The expense likewise needs charging points to be practical to access, work seamlessly across the UK as well as abide by the exact same operational standards. 
The statement complies with an investigation by auto reveal which previously highlighted exactly how the UK’s public charging facilities is having a hard time to keep speed with EV uptake.
Electric and plug-in cars and truck ownership has soared from 2,254 vehicles in 2012 to 85,983 at the end of last year. However, the number of charging points in the UK has only increased from 2,883 in 1,287 places to 11,736 in 4,243 places during the exact same period. The ratio of EVs to chargers has grown from 0.78 to 7.32 in just four years, according to data acquired by fee point database Zap-Map.